The Florida Project's Ending Explained
The ending of The Florida Project has a deeper meaning for the movie's overall message. Indie filmmaker Sean Baker has carved himself a niche in crafting slice-of-life dramas that tell the largely untold stories of people living on the fringes of modern American society. His The Florida Project characters fall into this pattern. His 2004 film Take Out depicted a day-in-the-life of an illegal Chinese immigrant working at a New York City take-out, while Baker’s breakout 2015 movie Tangerine told the tale of a transgender sex worker living in Hollywood.
With this movie, Sean Baker turned his attention to an impoverished single mother named Halley (Bria Vinaite) and her six-year-old daughter Moonee (Brooklyn Prince, in an astonishing acting debut) who live in a cheap motel in Kissimmee, Florida. Although the cheerfully named Magic Castle motel they live in is located just a few short miles from Disney World, it might as well be a whole universe away as the pair try to eke out a living under the poverty line.
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Alongside Bria Vinaite and Brooklynn Prince, The Florida Project cast features Willem Dafoe — in one of the best performances of the past decade — as tough-talking but kind motel manager Bobby and Valeria Cotto as Moonee’s newfound friend Jancey, who lives at the neighboring and equally rundown Futureland Inn. The focus, however, is on Brooklyn Prince’s Moonee whose childlike wonder, innocence, and imagination elevate her above her bleak circumstances even as her mother resorts to increasingly desperate means like sex work to make ends meet. Moonee’s sense of wonder extends through The Florida Project’s bittersweet conclusion too.
The Florida Project’s ending sees Halley attract
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